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The Prairie Lines SW1500 No. 1002 sits outside of Archer Daniel Midland's Clinton Iowa facility. NBH photo May 3rd 2023
A Union Pacific switch job is at work in the Bloomington, IL yard. Two members of the crew can be seen on the ground as the job goes about its work switching the former Chicago & Alton yard. Power for the train is a leased Locomotive Leasing Partners (LLPX) SW1500 EMD switcher. This yard was once the home of the C&A’s main railroad shops. Today all the vestiges of the shops are gone. The only C&A structure remaining in Bloomington is a stone freight house built in 1888, a portion of which can be seen in the distant background.
It was late in the afternoon before I became freed up to go take a ride up along CSX's Henderson subdivision and it wasn't looking very promising all the way from Guthrie, Kentucky to just south of Crofton when I passed this mixed-bag heading towards Nashville. Led by AC60CW #631, this four-unit lashup also included SD70MAC #741, AC4400CW #109, and an SW1500 switcher (#1107) that apparently spends time in both Evansville, IN and Nashville, TN. It ended up being a rather murky sky and lighting, as well, but the sun half-heartedly popped through just south of Sadlersville, Tennessee as it was setting, resulting in this capture as they begin down the grade to the Red River bridge (3-21-2012).
I'm experimenting with shooting more RAW files and playing with some additional settings to try to overcome some noise and white balance issues... While not entirely pleased with those that resulted from today's outing, shooting RAW files truly seems to be the way to go for the most versatility in post-processing. Not a "new" discovery, by any means, but it's past time I bit the bullet and started shooting in such fashion. I do have to remember and allow for the longer file-write times, for I missed a frame here and there since it was still busy writing the previous image. ;-)
(Note: Replaced this morning after resolving a few hot pixels I missed while processing last night - 3-22-2012.)
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Knoxville, TN in September 1998
Knoxville & Holston River SW1500 2313 (ex-AGLF 2313, xx-NS 2313, nee-SOU 2313) at Knoxville, TN on September 18, 1998.
The 2000's were quite colorful around Janesville, WI. UP was in the process of wiping out CNW & brought their merger victims power to town and here on WSOR, CSX & NS power was showing up on coal trains and you never knew what work the Horicon paint shop would land.
UP SW1500 1014 on the left was actually property of LTEX and bad ordered here on its way to Horicon to trade it's horrible yellow for a cheery red.
WSOR GP38 3806 actually belongs here and is headed out to work the yard.
The Alaska GP40-2's had been given an overhaul by NRE, repainted at Horicon and stopped here on their way home.
CSX SD40-2 8127 came in on one of those UW Madison heater coal trains and was put to work on WSOR while the train was unloaded, making a few trips on the Monroe Sub.
CIT Group/Capital Finance SW1500 CEFX 1569
Eastbound manifest with ES44AC CN 2914 and CN 2925
14th Ave, Markham, Ontario, Canada
September 8th, 2015
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Illinois Terminal SW1500, 1501, and 1502 in front of the East Belt engine house at Springfield, Illinois.
An EMD SW1500 at Wayne Junction in October 1976, likely photographed from either the ConRail Crusader or a Bethlehem train.
IHB SW1500 1504 smokes it up as it's the only unit online on this BA10 crossing Indiana Ave in Dolton, IL.
Conrail EMD SD40-2 locomotives # 6389 & # 6358, plus EMD SW1500 switcher # 9512 is seen in the yard at Altoona, Pennsylvania, October 1996. The Juniata Locomotive Shop is located across the yard tracks. Notice the old Pennsylvania Railroad block signal position lights located over the the two SD40-2 locomotives. Seen in the background is Altoona Hospital building.
This came through today. I'm such a sucker for a switcher. It was worth a little chase; besides I was getting stir crazy. Kind of reminds me of Erie Lackawanna Commuter / NJDOT livery!
Can't seem to find any prior history on this unit., but I'm sure I'll hear from someone after I post.
BNSF
Red River Division
Houston Subdivision
MP165.00 - Flynn, TX
MP159.36 - OSR gc; Normangee, TX
MP157.75 - CR330 gc; Normangee, TX
MP151.56 - TX21 ug; North Zulch, TX
MP139.00 - TMPA, Iola, TX
MP131.08 - SR90 og
BNSF H-TEAAMY 1-25A (sb manifest; Teague, TX to PTRA American Yard; Houston, TX
BNSF 5284 [GE C44-9W]
BNSF 5178 [GE C44-9W]
KMTX 404 [EMD SW1500]
all images: © 2022 ~ Phantastic Pherroequinology / Philip M. Goldstein
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Birmingham, AL in May 1979
On May 28, 1979 Dad shot Frisco SW1500 329 (to BN 34, to BNSF 3414) at Birmingham, Alabama.
The Canton Railroad had three units sitting around when I came down: the two GP7us #1364, #1307, and SW1500 #1501.
This railroad is over a century old, dating back to the mid-1900s when a marine terminal operator built its own railroad to serve customers on land surrounding the port. After changing ownership numerous times throughout the century, it was purchased by the State of Maryland in 1987.
KCRR SW1500 3408, built as SLSF 323 in October 1968, sitting silently at UP Stateline Yard on a cold February night. This newcomer was operated by ITS out west in Las Vegas before arriving here in Kansas City for what appears to be a new railroad company. KCRR 3408 will be operating under Jaguar Transportation at their new Kaw Bridge Yard, which was aquired from Union Pacific recently. Little is known about this new addition to the Kansas City railroading scene at the time, but cheers to a new operation in the Heartland.
An eastbound CPKC run-through manifest with two KCS SD70MACs in the lead passes through the West Bottoms past the newcomer sitting in UP Stateline Yard.
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Kansas City, Missouri, USA
February 3, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
A yard switcher based out of Evansville, CSXT SW1500 #1102, somehow found its way onto the New Rock. Here it is sitting alongside two GP15Ts and an SD70MAC.
KCRR SW1500 3408, built as SLSF 323 in October 1968, sitting silently at UP Stateline Yard on a cold February night. This newcomer was operated by ITS out west in Las Vegas before arriving here in Kansas City for what appears to be a new railroad company. KCRR 3408 will be operating under Jaguar Transportation at their new Kaw Bridge Yard, which was acquired from Union Pacific recently. Little is known about this new addition to the Kansas City railroading scene at the time, but cheers to a new operation in the Heartland.
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UP Kansas City Metro Subdivision
KCRR Stateline Yard
West Bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
February 3, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Finally?! I don't get up to Tomahawk WI very often and I can never catch the TR as they always seem to be somewhere in the mill. This weekend I lucked out. TR 1587 is backing it's cut of cars over the Highway CC crossing after servicing the mill.
Conrail local freight train led by an EMD SW1500 switcher, is seen passing the platform at an out of service passenger station in Hew Hampshire, August 1982. The EMD switcher was still wearing it's former PC black paint scheme with CR markings on it's side near the nose. The location of this station as I remember it, is not too far from Wolfeboro. This station in the past may have been a former Amtrak station. It now apperas that the station is being used as a restaurant or for a private club.
Commonly referred to as Buttheads, former CSX SW1500 202 sits at SCFE’s Clewiston North Shops. Being assigned to the USSC’s Sugar Mills, it’s a real treat to see these switchers in plain sight.
Downtown Clewiston, FL
SCFE Clewiston North Shops
04/21/23 — 4:41PM EST
New York Container Terminal, EMD SW1500, GMTX 173, in Staten Island, New York, USA. March, 2021. 173 was built in 1969 for the Longview, Portland & Northern Railroad. Copyright Tom Turner
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Oakland, CA in June 1984
On June 2, 1984 as we left town on board Amtrak's Coast Starlight Dad shot Southern Pacific SW1500 2629 approaching with 2 Amtrak passenger cars.
ILSX SW1500 #921, SL&RG E9A #101, and GP40FH-2 #4137 sit in the storage line in Bensenville during hard times at Iowa Pacific Holdings.
Montana Rail Link SW1500 MRL 51 (ex-INLX 119, blt. EMD, La Grange, IL., 05/68) Light engine @ S 23rd St, Billings Montana, September 8th, 2011.
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Outshopped from EMD in May 1970, NASA #2 is an SW1500 Class Switcher Locomotive that spent its early years on the Toledo, Peoria & Western as their #305. 13 years later in 1983 the class lll would sell three of its SW1500s, including the #305, to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) for service at their Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Once in the Sunshine State, all three were renumbered with the #305 becoming motor #2 while her sisters became motors #1 and #3. They were also given the red, gray, and black paint scheme of the NASA Railroad.
From 1963 to 2015, this 38 Mile Class lll industrial operation linked the various industrial workings in and around KSC to the Florida East Coast Railway’s Mainline at a point near Titusville known as “Jay Jay”. It also acted as a bridge carrier, moving traffic between the FEC and the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force (now “Space Force”) Station which also had its own industrial railroad in years past.
The NASA Railroad handled primarily bulky equipment that was otherwise too heavy to be trucked such as Solid Rocket Boosters, as well as various types of chemicals such as oxygen and helium which are used as a fuel source for rockets. Much of this traffic would fall off considerably following the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011 which inevitably led to the Railroad’s closure in 2015. The year prior while the writing was on the wall, NASA would donate their #2 to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami. Since arriving on the property in March 2014, the #2 has become the Museum’s primary motive power for all revenue and non-revenue operations around the property. Video from my November 2024 visit to the Museum where I saw the #2 in action: youtu.be/zl4rNjWMgKU
GMTX SW1500 #167 sits on track 15 at the Aux Sable Plant. This is the former BN #312 that was built in Jan. 1973.
was found sitting in front of the shop in Dixmoor, IL while serving as the yard engine.
It was built in 1969 as SP 2351.
A Raritan Central crew has completed some switching work and runs up to a switch to make a reverse move back to the yard office. LTEX SW1500 1074 is ex-SP 2468.
NS H1K heading for Tifft Yard on the Westbound passes by a South Buffalo Local switching in Buffalo Creek Yard
Johnson County Airport Commission NEW Rebuilt Electro-Motive Diesel SW1500 from Relco
Photo Taken: 8-4-16 about 6:28 pm
Picture ID# 7776
SW1500's #5 and 6 with hoppers for the coke ovens at Woodlawn, NY on March 20, 1999. These units also came from the SP, though the trademark SP lights have been removed. #6 is now orange #1511 under GWI ownership.(SB1999s)
Burlington Junction Railway SW1500 #1515 crosses Meramec St/the Entrance to Buder Park with a cut of cars that had been left by a BNSF local on the industry spur in Valley Park, MO on December 26, 2013. This spur runs from the BNSF (ex-Frisco) Cuba Sub east to the area where the Chrysler Plant used to stand in Fenton, MO.
This SW1500 still wears patched Conrail paint, having been built 3-1972 with a serial number of 7355-49 for the Penn Central as PC 9558, later CR 9558. The engine was leased to Watco as LLPX 212 for several years before being purchased and used here on the Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad.
Locomotive: WAMX 1529
10-3-15
Salina, KS
Here we have an HO scale Athearn SW1500 lettered for CN/WC road #1569. The unit comes with new tooling, can motor, is DCC ready. Additional details and weathering were applied. This unit will get Tsunami sound, ditch lights and beacons on the cab roof along with other modifications..
The same train in the previous image is seen approaching Ravenna Road in Brady Lake, Ohio. It will work in Ravenna and then return cab forward to Brittain Yard in Akron. That means that whatever cars the crew picked up in Kent must be taken to Ravenna.